BRAVO DANIIL! Tel-Hai Master Classes warmly congratulate our former student (summer 2009) and recipient of Tel-Hai's Pnina Salzman Memorial prize DANIIL TRIFONOV on winning the First Prize in the Thirteenth Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition in Tel Aviv, Israel (10 -26 May, 2011). Daniil also won the Audience Favorite prize, the Pnina Salzman prize for the best performance of a work by Chopin, and the prize for the best performance of a Chamber Music work. We wish him great success and an auspicious career!

Daniil Trifonov, immediately upon winning the Arthur Rubinstein International Piano Master Competition, being congratulated by Sara Lahat (on the left), the Chair of Tel-Hai Masterclasses, Vera Vaidman, faculty, the Chamber-Music Workshop at Tel-Hai, and Emanuel Krasovsky, artistic director (Photo: Yaira Yasmin)